David O Dowling
Biographic Data
| ID | 232364 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David O Dowling |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | O Dowling |
| SIGNATURE | DOWLING D O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9507-4584 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The deskilling dilemma: ChatGPT, pedagogical obligation, and the paradox of journalism education
This paper critically examines the perceived impact of ChatGPT on journalism and mass communication education in the United States, with particular attention to how the technology is framed by instructors within the field. Using a survey of 91 educators, the study explores perceived threats, benefits, and pedagogical adaptations related to generative AI. Drawing on critical perspectives from science and technology studies, the paper interrogates …
Promise and paradox: The uneven rise of AI in African journalism education
Understanding the Far-Right Podcast Ecosystem: Production, Politics, and Rhetoric
Science Journalism in Postcolonial India: Mapping the Political Economy of Ayurveda in Digital News
Reckoning with subaltern science: The case of India’s T he W ire S cience
In light of the dominance of “Western” scientific discourse in English-language news media, the question arises regarding how and to what extent a prominent Global South-based science newsmagazine such as India’s The Wire Science positions itself with respect to indigenous cultural practices. Addressing this question, our essay critically examines The Wire Science ’s “The Science of the Seas” feature series as one form of “subaltern science” stem…
The Magnate and the Muckraker: Understanding the 1924 Meetings Between John D. Rockefeller Jr and Ida Tarbell
Functioning as the custodian of his father’s memory, John D. Rockefeller Jr, solicited the advice of muckraking reporter Ida Tarbell in 1924 regarding whether and when he should publish a commissioned biography of his father. This surprising gesture occurred two decades after Tarbell’s investigative series for McClure’s and book, The History of the Standard Oil Company (1904), helped to expose Rockefeller’s father for monopolistic practices that …
Advocacy and Activism in Sports Podcasts: Expanding Journalistic Roles
This article examines the political turn in sports podcasting, focusing on the blurring and evolving boundaries of journalistic roles. The US-based sports podcasts Social Sport , Burn It All Down , and Edge of Sports offer three case studies of how podcasting opens space for politicizing sports coverage beyond scores and highlights. Podcast coverage of sports has adapted by enhancing a focus on the political implications of athletes’ personal sto…
Conceptualizing the Co-evolution of Journalism and Public Relations: Toward a Theory of Branded News Content’s Hybrid Forms
Journalism and public relations (PR) have a long history of reciprocal influence evident in their co-evolution toward hybrid forms at the nexus of news media and marketing. Through critical analysis historicizing key stages in the co-evolution of journalism and PR, this theoretical intervention provides a conceptual model for understanding the origins and nature of brand journalism. Contemporary brand journalism extends from four distinct stages …
Feeling and Playing the News: Conceptualizing Advances in Immersive and Gamified Journalism
This study examines journalistic principles, user experience, and representation of marginalized subjects in industry-leading immersive and gamified digital journalism. Through critical analysis of technology, industry, and culture, findings indicate a wide range of interactive and immersive formats leveraging game mechanics and aesthetics can enhance the core democratizing function of journalism to expose policy, power, ideology, and self-intere…
Defying Uganda’s morality police: The grammar of social media protest images
This study examines the social media movement protesting Uganda’s 2014 Anti-Pornography Act (APA) designed to regulate women’s attire. The legislation fueled mob attacks on women wearing miniskirts in public, sparking public protests documented with images of demonstrators bearing placards voicing their dissent. Unlike the traditional public sphere where gatekeeping remains pervasive and entrenched, social media’s loosely regulated platforms give…
Interactive documentary and the reinvention of digital journalism, 2015–2020
Interactive documentary (i-docs), an innovative hybrid form at the intersection of film, journalism, and digital games, has matured beyond its first wave of experimentation, gaining distinction among the most highly evolved immersive media of the twenty-first century. The latest generation of i-docs is currently winning accolades at both major film festivals and game design summits. This study charts the evolutionary trajectory of North America’s…
Hijacking Journalism: Legitimacy and Metajournalistic Discourse in Right-Wing Podcasts
Whereas personal expression has become a core practice of journalism whose merits can include greater attention to context and interpretative analysis, these freedoms from the constraints of traditional broadcast conventions can pose serious risks, including the ideological hijacking of journalism by partisan actors. In popular right-wing podcasts, such as those hosted by Ben Shapiro and Dan Bongino, the element of opinion amplifies the tendency …
From Black Lives Matter to Covid-19: Daily news podcasts and the reinvention of audio reporting
Globally daily news podcasts have exponentially grown in popularity. To build on the increased interest in this podcast format, this study examines three distinct programmes in this genre. The focus of our research specifically highlights the significant news events during the summer of 2020: the killing of George Floyd, and subsequent Black Lives Matter protests, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a set of genre conventions adapted and expanded fr…
Alternative Media on the Front Lines: Unicorn Riot and Activist Journalism’s New Urgency
Alternative media has typically defied the status quo both in journalistic practice and in ways that challenge commonly held tenets of press ethics. Unicorn Riot’s alternative coverage of the 2020 social justice protests marked a milestone in decentralized, street-level storytelling shattering norms of both journalistic production and digital modes of publication, in the process renewing public and academic discourse on journalistic principles. T…
A Curriculum for Blackness: Podcasts as Discursive Cultural Guides, 2010-2020
African-American podcasting’s ascent marks a potent articulation of Black identity and experience in media history, one reaching an unprecedented range of audiences, dialogs, and online communities. This study examines how content, production practices, and digital audiences for Black podcasting generate a metaphorical curriculum for blackness, a set of discursive cultural guides for listeners. Case studies representative of major genres and publ…
The Gamification of Digital Journalism: Innovation in Journalistic Storytelling
This book examines the brief yet accelerated evolution of newsgames, a genre that has emerged from puzzles, quizzes, and interactives augmenting digital journalism into full-fledged immersive video games from open-world designs to virtual reality experiences. Critics have raised questions about the credibility and ethics of transforming serious news stories of political consequence into entertainment media, and the risks of trivializing grave and…
Documentary games for social change: Recasting violence in the latest generation of i-docs
The evolutionary trajectory of digital journalism has been fuelled by the convergence of visual storytelling unique to documentary filmmaking with the graphics and procedural rhetoric of digital games. The reciprocal influences between gaming and documentary forms coalesce in this new highly engaging interactive journalism. This research demonstrates how game mechanics, design and logics combine with cinematic storytelling conventions in document…
One Year of #GamerGate: The Shared Twitter Link as Emblem of Masculinist Gamer Identity
Since the #GamerGate controversy erupted in 2014, anti-feminist gamers continue to lash out at feminists and supporters of progressive and inclusive gaming content. A key strategy in this discourse is the sharing of content via links on Twitter, which accompany messages positioning the sender on either side of the debate. Through qualitative analysis of a data set drawn from 1,311 tweets from 2016 to 2017, we argue that tweeted links are a salien…
A Delicate Aggression: Savagery and Survival in the Iowa Writers' Workshop
Immersive Audio Storytelling: Podcasting and Serial Documentary in the Digital Publishing Industry
Structural shifts behind the rise of podcasting have led to programming aimed at sustaining audience attention, a development coinciding with the sharp increase in engaged time with digital longform content among mobile users. This study industrially and culturally situates 3 case studies: True Murder (a pioneering precursor to This American Life producers’ Serial), S-Town (Serial’s successor that far exceeded its listenership), and Ear Hustle (R…
Immersive Longform Storytelling: Media, Technology, Audience
A deep dive into the world of online and multimedia longform storytelling, this book charts the renaissance in deep reading, viewing and listening associated with the literary mind, and the resulting implications of its rise in popularity. David O. Dowling argues that although developments in media technology have enabled the ascendance of nonfictional storytelling to new heights through new forms, it has done so at the peril of these intensely p…
Gandhi's Newspaperman: T. G. Narayanan and the quest for an independent India, 1938–46
The expansion of the colonial public sphere in India during the 1930s and 1940s saw the nation's English-language press increasingly serve as a key site in the struggle for freedom despite British censorship. This article examines the journalistic career of T. G. Narayanan, the first Indian war correspondent and investigative reporter, to understand the role of English-language newspapers in India's quest for independence. Narayanan reported on t…
Digital Archiving as Social Protest: Dalit Camera and the mobilization of India’s “Untouchables”
The relationship between journalism and social marginalization is a relatively understudied area in digital journalism studies. Our case study of Dalit Camera (DC), an online news archive and chronicle based in India, examines how historically disadvantaged Dalits, or “Untouchables,” are leveraging digital tools to narrate their oppressive past to the outside world parallel to the rise of political censorship in India. As part of its archiving pr…
Sailing into Sandy: Media and the Moral Wreckage of the HMS Bounty
Revenge upon a Dumb Brute: Casting the Whale in Film Adaptations of Moby-Dick
Research Article| December 01 2014 "Revenge upon a Dumb Brute": Casting the Whale in Film Adaptations of Moby-Dick David Dowling David Dowling Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Film and Video (2014) 66 (4): 50–63. https://doi.org/10.5406/jfilmvideo.66.4.0050 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon T…
Digital Archiving as Social Protest: Dalit Camera and the mobilization of India’s “Untouchables”
The relationship between journalism and social marginalization is a relatively understudied area in digital journalism studies. Our case study of Dalit Camera (DC), an online news archive and chronicle based in India, examines how historically disadvantaged Dalits, or “Untouchables,” are leveraging digital tools to narrate their oppressive past to the outside world parallel to the rise of political censorship in India. As part of its archiving pr…
From Black Lives Matter to Covid-19: Daily news podcasts and the reinvention of audio reporting
Globally daily news podcasts have exponentially grown in popularity. To build on the increased interest in this podcast format, this study examines three distinct programmes in this genre. The focus of our research specifically highlights the significant news events during the summer of 2020: the killing of George Floyd, and subsequent Black Lives Matter protests, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a set of genre conventions adapted and expanded fr…
One Year of #GamerGate: The Shared Twitter Link as Emblem of Masculinist Gamer Identity
Since the #GamerGate controversy erupted in 2014, anti-feminist gamers continue to lash out at feminists and supporters of progressive and inclusive gaming content. A key strategy in this discourse is the sharing of content via links on Twitter, which accompany messages positioning the sender on either side of the debate. Through qualitative analysis of a data set drawn from 1,311 tweets from 2016 to 2017, we argue that tweeted links are a salien…
Revenge upon a Dumb Brute: Casting the Whale in Film Adaptations of Moby-Dick
Research Article| December 01 2014 "Revenge upon a Dumb Brute": Casting the Whale in Film Adaptations of Moby-Dick David Dowling David Dowling Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Film and Video (2014) 66 (4): 50–63. https://doi.org/10.5406/jfilmvideo.66.4.0050 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon T…
Alternative Media on the Front Lines: Unicorn Riot and Activist Journalism’s New Urgency
Alternative media has typically defied the status quo both in journalistic practice and in ways that challenge commonly held tenets of press ethics. Unicorn Riot’s alternative coverage of the 2020 social justice protests marked a milestone in decentralized, street-level storytelling shattering norms of both journalistic production and digital modes of publication, in the process renewing public and academic discourse on journalistic principles. T…
Documentary games for social change: Recasting violence in the latest generation of i-docs
The evolutionary trajectory of digital journalism has been fuelled by the convergence of visual storytelling unique to documentary filmmaking with the graphics and procedural rhetoric of digital games. The reciprocal influences between gaming and documentary forms coalesce in this new highly engaging interactive journalism. This research demonstrates how game mechanics, design and logics combine with cinematic storytelling conventions in document…
Dreams Deferred: Ambition and the Mass Market in Melville and King
Judith Wright’s Delicate Balance
Judith Wright's poetry, stretching as it now does over thirty years and a dozen volumes, can be seen as a complex, evolving series of exhaustive intellectual and emotional exercises, directed at reconciling the basic dichotomies of human existence into paradox or harmony. The titles of her volumes reveal this concern with duality: Woman to Man, The Two Fires, The Other Half, Fourth Quarter. The problem is compounded and perhaps finally solvedâ or…
Judith Wright’s Delicate Balance
Judith Wright's poetry, stretching as it now does over thirty years and a dozen volumes, can be seen as a complex, evolving series of exhaustive intellectual and emotional exercises, directed at reconciling the basic dichotomies of human existence into paradox or harmony. The titles of her volumes reveal this concern with duality: Woman to Man, The Two Fires, The Other Half, Fourth Quarter. The problem is compounded and perhaps finally solvedâ or…
New Zealand (Including South Pacific Islands)
Arnold Bennett, 1867–1931
Anthony Trollope 1815–82
New Zealand (Including South Pacific Islands
New Zealand (with the South Pacific Islands
New Zealand (with the South Pacific Islands)
Parlors, Sofas, and Fine Cambrics”: Gender Play in Melville's Narrations
Autobiography as Professional Ethic: Fanny Fern's Vision of Literary Partnership
The Business of Literary Circles in Nineteenth-Century America
This comprehensive study ranges from Irving's Knickerbockers, Emerson's Transcendentalists, and Garrison's abolitionists to the popular serial fiction writers for Robert Bonner's New York Ledger to un
“The Section to Which we Belong”: Emerson’s Transcendentalists
M oving from literary New Yorkers to New England’s most noteworthy and intricately intertwined literary networks raises important points of contrast, for there was a healthy rivalry between the Knickerbockers and the Transcendentalists. Many from Philadelphia, such as Rebecca Harding Davis, also scorned the Concord clique. Opaque, inconsequential, and most importantly, incomprehensibly abstract were the allegations laid upon Transcendentalists. D…
Dreams Deferred: Ambition and the Mass Market in Melville and King
From Gift to Commodity: Capitalism and Sacrifice in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
From Gift to Commodity offers a series of powerful case studies in American fiction that demonstrate tensions between trust and self-interest in the world of commodity and gift exchange. Particularly provocative is a chapter on the problematic racial politics of William Wells Brown's Barnumesque self-promotional tactics that troubled the didactic approach toward sacrifice featured in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). Hildegard Hoe…
Sailing into Sandy: Media and the Moral Wreckage of the HMS Bounty
Revenge upon a Dumb Brute: Casting the Whale in Film Adaptations of Moby-Dick
Research Article| December 01 2014 "Revenge upon a Dumb Brute": Casting the Whale in Film Adaptations of Moby-Dick David Dowling David Dowling Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Film and Video (2014) 66 (4): 50–63. https://doi.org/10.5406/jfilmvideo.66.4.0050 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon T…
Digital Archiving as Social Protest: Dalit Camera and the mobilization of India’s “Untouchables”
The relationship between journalism and social marginalization is a relatively understudied area in digital journalism studies. Our case study of Dalit Camera (DC), an online news archive and chronicle based in India, examines how historically disadvantaged Dalits, or “Untouchables,” are leveraging digital tools to narrate their oppressive past to the outside world parallel to the rise of political censorship in India. As part of its archiving pr…
A Delicate Aggression: Savagery and Survival in the Iowa Writers' Workshop
Immersive Audio Storytelling: Podcasting and Serial Documentary in the Digital Publishing Industry
Structural shifts behind the rise of podcasting have led to programming aimed at sustaining audience attention, a development coinciding with the sharp increase in engaged time with digital longform content among mobile users. This study industrially and culturally situates 3 case studies: True Murder (a pioneering precursor to This American Life producers’ Serial), S-Town (Serial’s successor that far exceeded its listenership), and Ear Hustle (R…
Immersive Longform Storytelling: Media, Technology, Audience
A deep dive into the world of online and multimedia longform storytelling, this book charts the renaissance in deep reading, viewing and listening associated with the literary mind, and the resulting implications of its rise in popularity. David O. Dowling argues that although developments in media technology have enabled the ascendance of nonfictional storytelling to new heights through new forms, it has done so at the peril of these intensely p…
Gandhi's Newspaperman: T. G. Narayanan and the quest for an independent India, 1938–46
The expansion of the colonial public sphere in India during the 1930s and 1940s saw the nation's English-language press increasingly serve as a key site in the struggle for freedom despite British censorship. This article examines the journalistic career of T. G. Narayanan, the first Indian war correspondent and investigative reporter, to understand the role of English-language newspapers in India's quest for independence. Narayanan reported on t…
A Curriculum for Blackness: Podcasts as Discursive Cultural Guides, 2010-2020
African-American podcasting’s ascent marks a potent articulation of Black identity and experience in media history, one reaching an unprecedented range of audiences, dialogs, and online communities. This study examines how content, production practices, and digital audiences for Black podcasting generate a metaphorical curriculum for blackness, a set of discursive cultural guides for listeners. Case studies representative of major genres and publ…
The Gamification of Digital Journalism: Innovation in Journalistic Storytelling
This book examines the brief yet accelerated evolution of newsgames, a genre that has emerged from puzzles, quizzes, and interactives augmenting digital journalism into full-fledged immersive video games from open-world designs to virtual reality experiences. Critics have raised questions about the credibility and ethics of transforming serious news stories of political consequence into entertainment media, and the risks of trivializing grave and…
Documentary games for social change: Recasting violence in the latest generation of i-docs
The evolutionary trajectory of digital journalism has been fuelled by the convergence of visual storytelling unique to documentary filmmaking with the graphics and procedural rhetoric of digital games. The reciprocal influences between gaming and documentary forms coalesce in this new highly engaging interactive journalism. This research demonstrates how game mechanics, design and logics combine with cinematic storytelling conventions in document…
One Year of #GamerGate: The Shared Twitter Link as Emblem of Masculinist Gamer Identity
Since the #GamerGate controversy erupted in 2014, anti-feminist gamers continue to lash out at feminists and supporters of progressive and inclusive gaming content. A key strategy in this discourse is the sharing of content via links on Twitter, which accompany messages positioning the sender on either side of the debate. Through qualitative analysis of a data set drawn from 1,311 tweets from 2016 to 2017, we argue that tweeted links are a salien…
Alternative Media on the Front Lines: Unicorn Riot and Activist Journalism’s New Urgency
Alternative media has typically defied the status quo both in journalistic practice and in ways that challenge commonly held tenets of press ethics. Unicorn Riot’s alternative coverage of the 2020 social justice protests marked a milestone in decentralized, street-level storytelling shattering norms of both journalistic production and digital modes of publication, in the process renewing public and academic discourse on journalistic principles. T…
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